Performing Quotes

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

It's fun when you're winning and performing well, but it's also hard because now you get older, you got responsibilities.

I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

My background was in performing originally.

It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome.

I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting.

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

We're performing several shows in the Canary Islands.

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.'

I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

I was performing from the age of three.

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever.

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

Know that there is so much more to you than your body. It's not just about perfecting the steps; you must trust your instincts to tell deep, emotional stories through the steps that you are performing.